Shoskamika Risper News Today

3News investigator Rachel Polansky presents part two of our series from Akron. Her energy jumped out with every move, with refreshing optimism in an often violent world coming from the smile of 8-year-old Mikayla Pickett. Today, that smile is only a memory. "We just miss her so much," her mother Shoskamika Risper told 3News. "Who wouldn’t? She had her whole life ahead of her." Credit: Shoskamika Risper Mikayla "Kay-Kay" Pickett Mikayla, or "Kay-Kay" as she was known, was with her older brothe...

In bloody year for U.S. cities, Akron lost several children to gun violence Didi Martinez and Tom Winter and Andrew Blankstein and Ken Dilanian and Rich Schapiro © Provided by NBC News Shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 14, Shoskamika Risper said goodbye to her daughter, Mikayla, before leaving their Akron, Ohio, home for her job at a nearby KFC restaurant. “I love you, and I’ll see you later,” Risper told her. “I love you, too,” the 8-year-old replied. About eight hour...